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Title:

All things being equal : instigating opportunity in an inequitable time / edited by Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins.

Publisher:

Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

ix, 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

United States--Economic conditions--2001-
United States--Social conditions--1980-
Educational equalization--United States.
Minorities--United States--Economic conditions.
Immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.
Equality--United States.

Other Authors:

Smedley, Brian D.
Jenkins, Alan, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239).

Contents:

Introduction: instigating opportunity in inequitable times / Alan Jenkins, Brian D. Smedley, and Bill Lann Lee -- You can take it with you: income and wealth across generations / Jared Bernstein -- Educational quality and equality : what it will take to leave no child behind / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Connecting families to opportunity: the next generation of housing mobility policy / Philip Tegeler -- Reducing incarceration to expand opportunity / Marc Mauer -- Why health care equity is essential to opportunity-and how to get there / Brian D. Smedley -- Measuring the extent and forms of discrimination in the marketplace: lessons from paired testing research / Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig -- Finding America : creating educational opportunity for our newest citizens / Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz -- Notes.

ISBN:

159558210X (hc.)
9781595582102 (hc.)

LCCN:

2007027728

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)